Ireland has won its first medal at the London 2012 Paralympic Games when 15-year-old Bethany Firth from Seaford, Co. Down, took gold in the women’s 100m backstroke S14 final. Her winning time was 1:08.93. Australian Taylor Corry took silver in a time of 1:09.46, and Dutch Marlou van der Kulk came third in 1:09.50. Bethany, who suffers from [...]
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